Borders of Orders - Grenzziehungen, Konflikte und soziale Ordnung

Presented by:Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders" in cooperation with Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach

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While the EU is expanding eastwards, terrorist groups and social movements are changing the landscape of the MENA region, attempting to redraw not only borders between states but also between “the religious” and “the secular”. Many more examples could be given: Recent developments have again brought the connection between borders and (social) order into the focus of attention. Processes of production, reproduction and the questioning of social orders are often connected to conflicts about and the contestation of borders. Borders are set by demarcating an outside or other from an inside, where order is established. Various orders, on the other hand, are challenged in conflicts, by shifting, perforating or deconstructing their borders, which may separate friend from enemy, law and crime, public and individual interests.

Recent developments and shifts may be seen as an inspiration to explore the interplay between borders and orders theoretically and empirically at this conference. In order to shed light on this connection on different levels and in its different manifestations, this conference draws on a very broad understanding of borders as well as social order. The topos of the border is discussed with regard to its implications for the production of and conflicts about social orders from an interdisciplinary perspective. Participants from a variety of world regions will be presenting papers from political and social sciences, art, philosophy, architecture and history at the conference.

After a first round of panels on Friday, Prof. Dr. Catherine Colliot-Thélène (University of Rennes) will deliver the conference’s Keynote Speech about ”The Right and the Duty of Hospitality in Democracy”. In this talk, she explores the conference’s topic by reflecting on the connection between the border of a demos with the democratic organization of a political order. The Keynote Speech is followed by a reception. On Saturday morning, we want to take up the conference’s topic in a “World Café format” and reflect upon borders and boundaries within academia. While brunching, all active participants have the chance to discuss and tease out, which order of knowledge(s) is produced and constituted through borders within our own institutional field. This rather informal discussion is followed by another round of panels and by an evening-screening of artistic movies, which represent different ways to think about and act upon borders in everyday life. We want to invite you to wrap up Saturday’s program with a party at the Cluster in order to discuss open questions and celebrate a (hopefully) successful conclusion of the conference.

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The Subject of Democracy

Svenja Ahlhaus (Hamburg): Reconstituting the boundaries of the demos: Conceptual remarks on the idea of political boundary-makingYunjeong Choi (New York): Between Disruption and Revolution: A New Theory of Constituent Power in Jacques RancièreJonathan Klein (Frankfurt a.M.): Determined self or self-determination? Castoriadis and Ranciere on collective autonomy

Thinking About Power and Exclusion

Dr. Gianfranco Casuso (Lima): Exclusion, Power, and Immanent CritiqueJan Obracaj (Konstanz): The Productivity of Limits: Mouffe, Foucault, and Rorty on Establishing, Experiencing, and Shifting the Limits of DiscourseAlexandros Alexandropoulos (London): Lines of exclusion: immigration, borders and psychoanalysis. A psychoanalytic interpretation of the current politics of exclusion

Welcoming Speech

Keynote Speech

Normative Orders EG 01

Catherine Colliot-Thélène (University of Rennes): The Right and the Duty of Hospitality in Democracy

Catherine Colliot-Thélène is professor for philosophy at the University of Rennes. Her main area of research lies in the field of political and social philosophy. In her latest book “La Démocratie sans ‚Demos‘”, she criticizes the ideas of self-government and popular sovereignty in a modern Western understanding of democracy, as they presuppose a national unity and only conceive of legal entities as citizens of a nation. Since the role of the nation state is increasingly shifting and institutions of power beyond the state are emerging and multiplying, it seems necessary to think about new conceptions of democracy which exceed the borders of nationality and “the people”.

The speech will be followed by a reception.

Saturday, 29 November 2014, 09:30-11:30; 12:00-14:00

World Cafe with Brunch

Seminarpavillon. Raum: SP 0.04., 09:30-11:30Moderated Discussion on ”Borders within academia – international and interdisciplinary” (closed to public participation)

Resistance and Autonomy - Redrawing Borders

David Betge (Berlin): A dry white season. A discourse analytical approach towards understanding why the South African land redistribution programme is failing the rural poorAnne Theobald (Tübingen): Making a Case for a New State: The Barotseland Self-Determination Struggle from a Framing Perspective

Contemporary Art Practices on Borders of the MENA Region

Daria Mille (Karlsruhe): “Cross-border”: Case study of the exhibition at the ZKM | KarlsruheSandra Noeth (Hamburg): Nothing To Declare: On the performativity of bordersDiana Popescu (Southhampton): The Poetics and Politics of the Eruv and the Wall in Contemporary Israel

Saturday, 29 November 2014, 17:00-19:00

The Aesthetic and its Borders

Andrea Sakoparnig (Berlin): "just as if they were two different worlds" – the Aesthetic Bridging Divergent Normative Orders in KantStefan Apostolou-Hölscher (Munich): Moments of Disagreement: Jacques Rancière and the Limits between Understandig and Imagination in Immanuel Kant´s AestheticsJovanka Popova (Skopje): Acts between the Forms of Protest and Socially Engaged Art Practices

Subjectivity and Space

Nuno Grancho (Coimbra): Us and them, do we hold something in common? Modes of space in a Portuguese colonial border city in IndiaMarcus Jurk (Frankfurt a.M.): World Views of Past and Present – World Maps as Sources of modern Subjectivity

Walking the Line – Constructions of the Other

Sonja Engel (Munich): At the Margin, in the Centre. Revisioning the Figure of the StrangerKiran Banerjee (Toronto): Theorizing Statelessness as Domination: Toward a Normative FrameworkAnn-Cathrin Drews-Kronawitt (Berlin): Figures of dislimitation in Michel Foucault’s oeuvre: The Cynics and other border-line characters

The film selection shows different possibilities to draw on “borders of orders” from multiple perspectives. Wedemeyer’s video Die Probe (The Test)reflects on the individual’s decision in political systems. A politician enters the scene as newly elected president, but instead of assuming responsibility, he wants to refuse power. Railings is one of the results of Francis Alÿs’ ‘artistic walking practice’, enacted in different streets of London. Alÿs points to the tradition of Enclosure as a privatization of the public space. By using the railings as a kind of drum kit, he transforms them into a piece of Minimal music. Tender Transitory Transportby Koka Ramishvili creates a suggestive cityscape composed of melancholy fragments. It seems like Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, itself formulates a poetic message consisting of spoken texts and atmospherically dense images. Shot in New York around the time of Hurricane Sandy, Fahrenholz’ Ditch Plains is a dystopian sci-fi street dance film about the fatal coupling of subjects and systems under conditions of permanent crisis. Improvised dream-like scenes, as well as documentary shots, join images of the city’s attempt to manage disaster.

Clemens von Wedemeyer (*1974, lives and works in Berlin) participated in the Moscow Biennial (2005) and in the Berlin Biennial (2006), as well as in Skulptur Projekte Münster (2008) and documenta 13 (2012). Solo exhibitions include MoMA PS1, New York (2006) and the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2011).

Francis Alÿs (*1959 in Belgium, lives and works in Mexico City) is one of the internationally most renowned contemporary artists. A retrospective exhibition was organized in 2010 by Tate Modern, London and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Koka Ramishvili (*1956 in Tbilisi, Georgia) belonged to the “last Soviet generation” of artists who up from 1991 initiated a vivid art scene in Tbilisi. He now lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2009, he represented Georgia at the 53nd Venice Biennale.

Loretta Fahrenholz (*1981, lives and works in Berlin) is a film maker and video artist. Her recent screenings and exhibitions include “ICA Artists’ Film Biennial” (2014), Ditch Plains, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2013) and Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York (2013).